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Site name Badbury Earthwork, Shapwick

Site number 1342

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8/700bc-100bc A defensive earthwork with a palisade trench dating from the latter part of the Bronze Age, succeeded in Late Iron Age B times by a ditch and bank, following a similar alignment but 6m further to the north. Levelling of the later bank produced human bones.

Remains/Period Y2

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 956

Y coordinate 30

Bibliographic source Vatcher 1966

Query

Site name	Badbury Earthwork, Shapwick
Site number	1342
Burial codes	2001 2005 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2111 2128 2143 2152 2181
8/700bc-100bc	A defensive earthwork with a palisade trench dating from the latter part of the Bronze Age, succeeded in Late Iron Age B times by a ditch and bank, following a similar alignment but 6m further to the north. Levelling of the later bank produced human bones.
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	956
Y coordinate	30
Bibliographic source	Vatcher 1966